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: "All That Jazz" is also a song from the musical Chicago.

All That Jazz is a 1979 musical film and semi-autobiographical fantasy by and about Bob Fosse.

Roy Scheider plays Joe Gideon, a chain-smoking, pill-popping, womanizing, workaholic choreographer and director. Fosse was inspired by his own manic effort to edit his film Lenny
(about Lenny Bruce) while simultaneously staging his musical Pippin.

It was written by Robert Alan Arthur and Fosse, and directed by Fosse. Besides Scheider, it starred Leland Palmer (as the ex-wife of Joe Gideon, based on Fosse's real-life wife Gwen Verdon) Ann Reinking (as the Fosse-Scheider character's girl friend), Cliff Gorman (who played a Lenny Bruce-inspired comedian in a film Gideon edits during the film), Ben Vereen (Fosse's star in Pippin), and featured Jessica Lange as Angelique, a Felliniesque personification of Death.

An odd tribute to show business, sex and death, All That Jazz was nominated for several Oscars, winning for Art Direction, stage direction, best costume, Best Editing (Alan Heim) and original score.

The film won the 1980 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Plot summary

Choreographing and picking dancers for his new show whilst editing his feature film about a standup comic is getting to Joe Gideon. He is a workaholic who also chain smokes, sleeps with various women and neglects his special dancing daughter Michelle. Without the chemical substances he wouldn't have the energy to keep up with his girlfriend Kate Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and Michelle. Everything around him is causing tremendous stress to his already fatigued body and his imagination he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique.

Gideon's condition gets worse as he checks himself out at the hospital and learns that he has two clogged arteries and needs heart surgery. The backers for the Broadway show must decide now if they should delay the opening or replace Gideon as the director. Scenes from his past life start to encroach on the present as he becomes increasingly aware of his mortality.

At least one critic (Leonard Maltin) called the film "self indulgent". In any case, the ending of the film essentially predicts Fosse's own real-life fate.

Main cast

Roy Scheider
- Joe Gideon
Jessica Lange
- Angelique
Leland Palmer - Audrey Paris
Ann Reinking
- Kate Jagger
Cliff Gorman - Davis Newman
Ben Vereen
- O'Connor Flood
Erzsebet Foldi - Michelle Gideon
Michael Tokan - Dr. Ballinger
Max Wright
- Joshua Penn
William LeMassena - Jonesy Hecht
Deborah Geffner - Victoria Porter
John Lithgow
- Lucas Sergeant

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Actors - All That Jazz

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